JOINT PRODUCTION WITHOUT FREE DISPOSAL: SUSTAINABLE ACTIVITY AND UNSUPPORTABLE PROCESSES
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description: Investigations of long-run sustainability of joint ecological-economic systems highlight the pertinence of reconsidering "free disposal" assumptions that underpin Sraffian and von Neumann approaches to value and growth theory. We investigate joint-production time-paths for square systems A and B , defined by nonnegative activity vectors T T1 y , y + ,... for periods T, T +1, ... satisfying iteratively T T 1 y y+ B = A , etc. Necessary and sufficient for existence of indefinitely sustainable "full resource utilisation" time paths (Hicks), is the condition that U ≡ BA−1 have a non-negative left-eigenvector with associated non-negative eigenvalue. Sustainable time-paths may then be balanced growth at g > −1, or convergent oscillations, or undamped cycles. Processes are classified as "essential", "non-essential", or "unsupportable" for sustainable activity, based on considerations of eigenvector (non)-negativity and (in)decomposability of U .
issued: 2026-05-09T10:11:51.406371
language: en
modified: 2026-05-09T10:11:51.406375
contact point: Organization
  fn: CCSD
keyword: convergence
keyword: decharge-gratuite
keyword: developpement-durable
keyword: environment
keyword: environnement
keyword: etat-stationnaire
keyword: free-disposal
keyword: free-gifts-of-nature
keyword: growth-theory
keyword: hicks
keyword: infoeu-reposemanticspreprint
keyword: joint-production
keyword: preprints-working-papers-
keyword: processus-insupportables
keyword: production-jointe
keyword: sdeesenvironmental-sciencesenvironment-and-society
keyword: shsecohumanities-and-social-scienceseconomics-and-finance
keyword: shsinfohumanities-and-social-scienceslibrary-and-information-sciences
keyword: soutenabilite
keyword: sraffa
keyword: stabilite
keyword: stability
keyword: steady-state
keyword: sustainability
keyword: theorie-de-croissance
keyword: unsupportable-processes
keyword: von-neumann
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JOINT PRODUCTION WITHOUT FREE DISPOSAL: SUSTAINABLE ACTIVITY AND UNSUPPORTABLE PROCESSES
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